Relias

MAY 2, 2022

And as rates of issues such as substance use disorder, domestic violence, and suicide continue to rise as a result of COVID-19 and its aftermath, 988 needs to become a part of how behavioral health organizations operate. The resultant mental health effects can be seen in the numbers discussed above.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

This was expressed by some young people, but especially by parents, including young parents who were care experienced, parents of disabled children, adopters and mothers who had experienced domestic violence.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work Quotes.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A story or book can be written for the child to explain why they were adopted or put in care to provoke open conversations and confirm that the situation was not their fault. Domestic violence. Assessment, intervention and review. Davies (Ed.), The Blackwell companion to social work (pp. Wiley Blackwell. Humphreys, C.

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Irish Social Worker

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Adopting victim-centric and trauma-informed approaches, designing systems that take account of the dynamics of abuse and disclosure, and sending the message that hard stories neednt be hard to tell are all within our gift.

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The Frontline

JULY 1, 2021

Taking these learnings forward and adopting more of a hybrid approach – working face to face (which is undoubtedly crucial to best support children and families) and virtually with families – provides social workers with new tools and ways of engaging families that helped strengthen relationships.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

According to the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, Colorado defines brain injury as: Damage to the brain from an internal or external source, including, but not limited to, a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), that occurs post-birth and is noncongenital, nondegenerative, and nonhereditary, resulting in partial or total functional impairment in one or more (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

As The Arizona Republic explains: The discovery has broad implications for children, parents and potential adoptive parents. The family police are the ones who took Melanie’s six-year-old daughter away and placed her with the foster/adoptive parents now accused of torturing and murdering her. So, whose judgment should we trust here? ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ? In other news: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. But only after the television station exposed the problem. ● That’s where Arabella died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. None of it was true.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domestic violence. Presumably witnessing domestic violence again.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But at a minimum lawmakers should be willing to eliminate one of the worst aspects of mandatory reporting – requiring people who work with survivors of domestic violence to turn those survivors in to DCF if the children saw them being beaten, leaving the survivors open to “failure to protect” allegations.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Domestic violence. Domestic Violence. Prior to the pandemic, domestic violence was already a worldwide issue. Sadly, these factors have led to an increase in domestic violence reports. global increase in reported cases of domestic violence. In the United States, they found an 8.1%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

Among those who suffer most: Children of domestic violence victims. Terrified that their children will be taken under laws labeling them bad parents for “allowing” their children to see them being beaten, a national survey found that domestic violence survivors fear seeking help – often for good reason.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. Probably the most important thing we talked about in terms of helpful strategies was her mastering her big feelings when triggered. Those triggers went straight to her core, gutting her with a flood of memories for similar feelings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

The mother says Arabella was taken because she’s witnessed domestic violence, a tragically common reason for wrongful removal. She was placed with foster parents who adopted her. Threatened physical punishment for eating food unless it was approved by the adoptive parents. Told the children their parents were dead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

. ● The Western New England Law Review has a superb summary of the research showing the enormous harm to children caused when they are taken from domestic violence survivors. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. But the Administration for Childrens Services considers itself free to harass domestic violence victims and their children by putting them under constant surveillance.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press Celebrating Four Colorado Adoptive Families November is National Adoption Month DENVER (Nov. 4, 2024) — In honor of National Adoption Month, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is spotlighting four incredible families who adopted seven Colorado children and youth from foster or kinship care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

One of the groups hurt most: Survivors of domestic violence. There is abundant recent research on the terror of mandated reporting and how families have to think twice about whether to reach out for help and what to say if they do – hesitancy that was only reinforced by the whole pandemic of child abuse mythology.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These families frequently consist of mothers with children by multiple fathers, with both parents often suffering from mental illness and/or drug abuse, and domestic violence is commonly present. What could be achieved by seeing extra-large families through clear eyes rather than a lens that is distorted by bias?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. KNSD-TV exposed the numerous warning signs that were ignored before Arabella was, in effect, adopted to death.

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Relias

JULY 14, 2023

The study suggested that domestic violence and suicide could account for large numbers of maternal deaths in some countries, but their findings were inconclusive. To target and serve previously neglected communities, prevent patterns from repeating, and stop the downward trend, it will be necessary to adopt new interventions.

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Clinic Mental Health Domestic Violence Healthcare 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

An adoptive mother is charged with murder, torture, and crimes straight out of a horror film nightmare. They were allegedly adopted to death. The starvation, torture, murder and other horrors all were allegedly orchestrated by Avantae Deven, the foster mother who adopted them. Thats an aberration. And lets not forget this story.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

was born) for issues including use of heroin, marijuana and alcohol in the home; lack of supervision of the children; domestic violence; an unsafe caregiver living with the family; an unsafe and unclean living environment unsecured guns in the home out-of-control behaviors by B.B.s During the ten years before B.B.s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A commission in Colorado actually recommended removing one category of mandated reporter -- advocates for survivors of domestic violence and narrowing the definition of neglect. A bill has been introduced to implement those recommendations. By the standards of family policing, those acts are revolutionary.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months. New Mexico: $5.5

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The story asks: Under the law in Michigan, family members have priority to adopt their relatives. And why was [the child] found at the home of one of the adoption agency’s employees? Also in Tennessee: Three children were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. Think Michigan is a fluke?

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Adoption Child Welfare 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

More than 20 years ago, a lawsuit stopped New York Citys family police agency from tearing children from their parents just because the parent, usually the mother, was herself a survivor of domestic violence. Other adopted foster children allegedly were tortured. Culprits include U.S.

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